Performance Management and Transparency

Performance management connects strategy, processes, key performance indicators, organization, people, and technology – for sustainable corporate success.

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Turning strategy into execution. Through clear goals and concrete measures.

Performance management covers the entire value chain of the company. Clarity regarding performance makes successes and risks visible and ensures sustainable improvement.

When strategy and operational reality drift apart, friction occurs. Individual departments may achieve good results, collaboration works, and day-to-day business runs smoothly. Yet, the link between strategic objectives and concrete implementation is often missing. Initiatives progress more slowly than planned, priorities shift, and the strategy loses its impact. Good results can mask this development for a long time, thereby jeopardizing the company's long-term development.

In performance management, we focus on the key levers for corporate success. We identify anomalies, contextualize them, and create the transparency needed to make the right decisions. This transparency encompasses processes, workflows, decisions, coordination, and capital tied up in inventory, production, and logistics. It also covers contribution margins and liquidity.

Performance is created within the value chain. That is exactly where we start. With methods that fit your company. Using approaches like the Target Operating Model, we translate strategy into concrete actions, define responsibilities, and create transparency regarding performance and progress. This allows us to anchor a management system that deploys resources effectively and actively steers growth, earnings, and liquidity. At the same time, it remains anchored within the owners' normative framework, ensuring the connection between the company and its ownership.

Think and act along the value chain.

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Performance & Transparenz

Ziele und Strategie

Ohne klare Ziele lässt sich Leistung weder beurteilen noch steuern. Wir leiten konkrete Unternehmensziele aus der Strategie ab. Daraus ergeben sich klare Erwartungen an Bereiche, Teams und Führungskräfte. So schaffen wir Transparenz über Prioritäten.

Kennzahlen und Messgrößen

Mit Kennzahlen machen wir Leistung, Fortschritte und Abweichungen sichtbar. So schaffen wir eine belastbare Grundlage für Entscheidungen. Dafür definieren wir Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Diese Kennzahlen ergänzen wir um finanzielle Kennzahlen wie Ergebnis, Liquidität und Rentabilität, operative Kennzahlen wie Termintreue, Qualität und Produktivität sowie Kunden- und Mitarbeiterkennzahlen.

Regelmäßiges Monitoring

Wir verankern Performance Management als laufenden Steuerungsprozess und nicht als jährliche Pflichtübung. Dafür schaffen wir ein kontinuierliches Reporting, das die relevanten Soll-Ist-Abweichungen transparent macht. Wir verknüpfen diese Informationen mit Forecasts und Frühwarnindikatoren. So schaffen wir Transparenz über die aktuelle Entwicklung und ermöglichen rechtzeitiges Handeln.

Führung und Feedback

Wir schaffen Klarheit darüber, welchen Beitrag jeder Einzelne zum Unternehmenserfolg leistet. Mitarbeitende wissen, was das Unternehmen von ihnen erwartet und wie ihre Leistung zum Erreichen der Ziele beiträgt. Dafür etablieren wir regelmäßige Leistungs- und Entwicklungsgespräche, klären Erwartungen und begleiten die Zielerreichung aktiv. Konstruktives Feedback von Führungskräften und Kollegen stärkt die Umsetzung im Arbeitsalltag und unterstützt die persönliche Entwicklung.

Maßnahmensteuerung

Kennzahlen allein schaffen keinen Erfolg. Entscheidend ist, welche Maßnahmen wir daraus ableiten und wie konsequent wir diese umsetzen. Dafür legen wir klare Verantwortlichkeiten fest, definieren Termine und verfolgen die Umsetzung aktiv nach. Regelmäßige Feedbackschleifen zeigen, was wirkt, wo nachgesteuert werden muss und wie wir die Leistung kontinuierlich verbessern.

Kontinuierliche Verbesserung

Performance Management verfolgt das Ziel, die Leistungsfähigkeit des Unternehmens dauerhaft zu steigern. Wir lernen aus Ergebnissen, passen Prozesse an und entwickeln Kompetenzen gezielt weiter. So erhöhen wir Effizienz und Wirksamkeit und schaffen die Grundlage für nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg.

PROJECT EXAMPLES

Performance Management and Transparency

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Establishing financial reporting for banks & investment firms

Industry: Manufacturing

Our role: Consultant

Project objectives

  • Implementation of timely and requirement-compliant financial reporting.
  • Transparent information with a focus on success factors.

Key results

  • Standardized accounting, controlling, and reporting processes to increase efficiency and quality.
  • Gradually building lender confidence through active report management.

Approach

  • Comprehensive analysis of the current situation regarding finance, accounting, and corporate planning (using MS Excel instead of specialized software).
  • Comprehensive analysis of contractual agreements in loan and investment contracts, including agreed-upon covenants.
  • Coordinating the scope of reporting with lenders and establishing standardized reporting, including scheduling.
  • Organizing finance and accounting workflows to ensure the timely completion of monthly and quarterly financial statements.
  • Organizing controlling workflows to ensure the timely completion of monthly and quarterly financial statement analyses, including comparisons against corporate planning and monitoring covenant compliance.
  • Organizing digital reporting availability for banks and private equity firms, as well as annual in-person meetings to discuss financial performance.

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Company industry

Our role

Project objectives

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as pay transparency obligations

Key results

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as pay transparency obligations

Approach

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as pay transparency obligations

Headline

Industry

Our role

Project objectives

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

Key results

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

Approach

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

Headline

Industry

Our role

Project objectives

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

Key results

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

Approach

  • Modernizing compensation structures to increase transparency and fairness
  • Increasing competitiveness through transparent and future-oriented compensation
  • Preventing dissatisfaction and turnover by providing clear criteria and guidance for employees
  • Compliance with legal requirements such as the Pay Transparency Act

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